Python client for the Pkmn Prices API. Pokemon TCG card pricing from TCGPlayer, Cardmarket, and eBay.
Sync and async clients, both built on httpx. Typed responses, typed errors, and iterators that page through results for you. Python 3.10+.
pip install pkmnpricesfrom pkmnprices import PkmnPrices
client = PkmnPrices("pk_your_key_here")
page = client.cards.list(name="charizard", per_page=10)
card = client.cards.get(page.data[0].id)
for price in card.prices:
symbol = "€" if price.currency == "EUR" else "$"
print(f"{price.source}: {symbol}{price.market_price}")
client.close()The client is also a context manager:
with PkmnPrices("pk_...") as client:
health = client.health()import asyncio
from pkmnprices import AsyncPkmnPrices
async def main():
async with AsyncPkmnPrices("pk_...") as client:
page = await client.cards.list(name="charizard")
async for card in client.cards.iterate(name="charizard"):
print(card.name)
asyncio.run(main())Get an API key from https://pkmnprices.com/dashboard.
PkmnPrices(
"pk_...", # API key, sent as the x-api-key header
max_retries=2, # retries on 429 rate limits and 5xx/network errors
timeout=30.0, # per-request timeout in seconds
)Rate-limit 429s are retried with backoff. Credit-limit 429s (credit_limit_exceeded) are not, since they don't reset until the next day.
List endpoints return a Page (.data, .pagination). Listing endpoints (eBay, Cardmarket, and TCGplayer) return a CursorPage. Both resources expose iterators so you don't track pages or cursors:
for card in client.cards.iterate(name="charizard"):
print(card.name)
all_sets = client.sets.list_all(language="english")
for sale in client.cards.listings.iterate_ebay(789, graded=True, grader="PSA", grade="10"):
print(sale.title, sale.price)
for offer in client.cards.listings.iterate_cardmarket(789, condition="Near Mint", variant="Reverse Holo"):
print(offer.seller, offer.price, offer.language)
for offer in client.cards.listings.iterate_tcgplayer(789, condition="Near Mint"):
print(offer.seller_name, offer.price, offer.shipping_price)Sealed products carry the same three listing sources, under client.sealed.listings:
for offer in client.sealed.listings.iterate_tcgplayer(5678):
print(offer.seller_name, offer.price, offer.quantity)
for offer in client.sealed.listings.iterate_cardmarket(5678):
print(offer.seller, offer.price, offer.opened)
for sale in client.sealed.listings.iterate_ebay(5678, sort="price_desc"):
print(sale.title, sale.price, sale.sold_at)Sealed Cardmarket offers take no variant: every sealed row is written with an
empty one, so the filter could only ever exclude everything. They are also
single-language — the offers returned are the ones in the set's own language, so
a Cardmarket product page showing offers in other languages lists more than this
endpoint does.
Sealed TCGplayer offers are normally condition "Unopened" with an empty
printing, so those two filters rarely narrow anything. Sealed eBay sales are
never graded, so graded, grader, and grade aren't accepted there and
grader/grade come back None. The async client mirrors all of these on
AsyncPkmnPrices.
A variant and its base card can map to one source product page. When that happens, both serve the same sales, and the titles describe whichever printing the seller actually sold. Every eBay comp says which case it is:
for sale in client.cards.listings.iterate_ebay(17679):
if sale.attribution == "shared":
continue # another card's evidence
print(sale.variant, sale.title, sale.price)exact means the source page belongs to this card alone. shared means the
sale appears under at least one other card too, so it prices the group rather
than this entity. unknown means the comp was collected before the source
printing was recorded. A feed that is entirely shared is not evidence about
the card you asked for.
variant also works as a filter, so a card mapped for more than one printing
can be read one printing at a time:
holo = client.cards.listings.all_ebay(789, variant="Holofoil")Credits are charged per row returned, so re-reading a page of comps you already
hold to find out that nothing changed is the expensive way to stay current.
since returns only what arrived after a point you name:
checkpoint = "2026-09-01T02:40:15.126147Z"
page = client.cards.listings.ebay(789, since=checkpoint)
for sale in page.data:
print(sale.title, sale.price)
if page.data:
checkpoint = page.data[0].ingested_atCheckpoint on ingested_at, not sold_at. They are different: sold_at is
when the sale happened, ingested_at is when we collected it, and a collection
run regularly brings in sales that are weeks old. A sale-date bound would step
over those permanently.
The bound is exclusive, so passing back the ingested_at you were given never
repeats that row. since also accepts a bare YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC),
which suits a backfill more than a poll: re-running it the same day returns the
same rows, and pays for them again.
A card with nothing new returns an empty data list.
updated_at on a TCGplayer offer is not a freshness signal. It moves only when
that listing's own price, quantity or seller details change, so an offer that
has been live and unchanged for a month keeps a month-old updated_at however
recently it was confirmed.
snapshot_at is the freshness field: when that product's listings were last
confirmed against TCGplayer. It is the same for every row in a response, since
a snapshot replaces a product's listings wholesale. Listings refresh daily, so
a snapshot_at well over a day old means that product's last fetch did not
succeed and you are looking at the previous snapshot.
One thing snapshot_at cannot tell you: listings are collected from a US
vantage point with no shipping-destination filter, so a response can contain
offers TCGplayer's own site hides from you when you browse it from elsewhere.
Cardmarket sells more than one kind of good under a single card. Every Cardmarket offer carries four booleans, and they are always present:
for offer in client.cards.listings.iterate_cardmarket(789):
if offer.graded:
print(offer.grader, offer.grade) # "PSA", "10"
if offer.signed or offer.altered:
continue # not a clean cardA signed, altered, graded or opened offer is real, and it is returned,
but it does not contribute to the market price. A signed and altered Near
Mint copy at EUR 200 must not set the Near Mint price of a card whose clean
copies sell for EUR 3,800, and a slab is priced for the slab rather than for the
card.
The practical consequence: the cheapest row you get back is not necessarily
the market_price. Filter these out before deriving a price yourself.
grader and grade are named to match the graded eBay sale shape, so "PSA 10"
reads the same whichever source it came from. Both are None unless graded
is true, and can be None even then — Cardmarket flags a slab without always
naming the grader, and the details are read from free-text seller comments.
opened is the sealed-product member of the set: the seller's own comment says
the item is not sealed. It is always False on a card. A Jungle booster pack
whose every other offer sits between EUR 799 and EUR 950 carries one at
EUR 10.00 reading "Not Sealed (open, just the booster)" — a real price for an
opened pack, not a EUR 10 Jungle booster pack.
The other reason the cheapest row may not be the price. sell_count is the
seller's completed sales, and an offer from a seller with no completed sales
does not set a price.
for offer in client.sealed.listings.iterate_cardmarket(1430):
if offer.opened:
continue # not the sealed product
if offer.sell_count == 0:
continue # no completed sales; sets no price
# offer.sell_count is None means no count was recorded -- not zero salesNone is not zero. None means no count was recorded for that row; 0
means Cardmarket reports the seller as having sold nothing. Treat only 0 as
disqualifying — and note that if not offer.sell_count catches both, which is
the mistake this distinction exists to prevent.
A card's language comes from its set, and it decides what pricing that card can ever have.
| Language | Cards | Pricing | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 28,158 | USD (TCGplayer, eBay) + EUR (Cardmarket) | Free |
| Japanese | 29,660 | USD + EUR | Pro+ |
| German | 13,078 | EUR (Cardmarket) only | Pro+ |
german = client.cards.list(language="German", currency="eur")Spelling is normalised: "German", "german", "de" and "DE" all resolve to
the same thing, and responses come back in the canonical form ("German").
German cards have no USD price and never will — TCGplayer does not sell
German product. Asking for German with currency="usd" returns an empty list
rather than an error, so reach for "eur".
The same rule scopes Cardmarket listings. cardmarket() returns offers in the
card's set language only, so an English card never returns German offers.
cardmarket.com shows every language on one product page, so the cheapest offer
here is usually higher than the "From" price a browser shows you. That is this
feed being narrower, not a different product.
A free key is limited to English. Asking for Japanese or German raises
ForbiddenError, and omitting language returns English only rather than the
whole catalogue.
German coverage runs from HeartGold & SoulSilver (2010) to current sets.
Every price has a currency field. Pass currency="usd" or currency="eur" to filter, or leave it off to get everything your plan allows. EUR (Cardmarket) prices need a Pro plan; a free key asking for eur raises ForbiddenError.
card = client.cards.get(789, currency="usd")
box = client.sealed.get(5678, currency="eur")Cardmarket current prices are condition- and printing-specific marketplace
prices. Each EUR row has one market_price for its exact condition and
variant; for example, a Near Mint Reverse Holofoil price is distinct from a
Mint or Normal price. The retired Price Guide low, trend, and avg fields
are not returned. Live Cardmarket listings are automatically restricted to the
card's language.
Card and sealed detail responses expose Cardmarket's stable product identifiers when a mapping is available:
card = client.cards.get(789)
print(card.cardmarket_url)
print(card.cardmarket_product_id)
box = client.sealed.get(5678)
print(box.cardmarket_url)
print(box.cardmarket_product_id)Both fields are None until the product has been mapped.
Everything raised subclasses PkmnPricesError, which carries status, code, rate_limit, and retry_after.
from pkmnprices import ForbiddenError, NotFoundError, RateLimitError
try:
client.cards.get(789, currency="eur")
except ForbiddenError:
... # needs a higher plan
except NotFoundError:
... # no such card
except RateLimitError:
... # ran out of retriesSubclasses: BadRequestError (400), UnauthorizedError (401), ForbiddenError (403), NotFoundError (404), ConflictError (409), CreditLimitError and RateLimitError (429), InternalServerError (5xx), APIConnectionError (network/timeout).
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